| ". . . . we finally went across the river and put up balloons on a string and stood on this side of Washington Street and said well, that’s about how high it could be, then we worried about sound.
The lights are going up and down, and showing, but sound travels at 88 ft. a second and one day we would see the lights and then later here comes the sound – well, that isn’t any good, so maybe we better figure out how to do that. Then we had a fellow saying that you can’t pump 3300 gallons thru this pump without – you know what happens to a bath tub when the water’s running down the hole and you are trying to regulate that water – any if you have this type of pump and you get air in the system, the pumps will blow up.
Well, the first thing to do would be to get something off the ground, so we went to Welded Products, took a piece of pipe 2-1/2” diameter, and they bent that pipe around and we drilled holes in it and put nozzles in it and went over to the coal dock, and we finagled – Buzz Terrell did, he said he’d like to have a pumper down there to see how much water we could pump, to make sure it’s operating alright.
We hooked the pumper up to that thing and sure enough water went up in great shape and about that time we could figure out how much water it was using.
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